LGCDP M&E Framework

Access to public goods/general
Indicator: Average time for rural households to reach the nearest of 15 key facilities in
minutes and hours
Rationale: The indicator provides a broad overview of changes in access to public goods. It is an
equally weighted average of 15 facilities (as tracked by the Nepal Living Standard Survey):
primary school, health post, bus stop, paved road, dirt road (vehicle passable and
impassable), local shop, haatbazar, market centre, agriculture centre, sajha/cooperatives,
commercial bank, source of water, post office, telephone booth.
Limits: • The indicator refers only to rural households. The data for both rural and urban
together is currently not published.
• Data for the indicator is very similar to the data for the poorest quintile of
households. The reason can be that poor households tend to live in rural areas.
• The indicator needs to be manually calculated based on the data published in the
NLSS.
• The interval between data collection of the Nepal Living Standard Survey is long
with seven years. The next Living Standard Survey is planned for 2010.
• The data is taken from the cross section (rather than from the panel) because it is
available sooner. 2
Baseline: 1 hour 59 minutes (2003/2004)
Target: 1 hour 30 minutes (2012)
Means of
Nepal Living Standard Survey (cross section)
Verification
Frequency every 7 years
Responsibility Central Bureau of Statistics
Access to public goods/roads
Indicator: % of rural households which have access to a dirt road (vehicle passable) within
30 minutes
Rationale: The construction of vehicle passable dirt roads is a typical service provided by local
governments through LGCDP. This indicator focuses on the rural areas, where the gap is
wider. The data refers to the time for one-way travel to the facility, irrespective of the
mode of transport.
Limits: • The interval between data collection of the Nepal Living Standard Survey is long
with seven years. The next Living Standard Survey is planned for 2010.
• To bridge the gap, the LGCDP Sample Surveys can collect data for this indicator
in-between NLSS cycles. However, the data collected through these two tools
might not be 100% comparable.
Baseline: 67.6% (2003/2004)
Target: 75% (2012)
Means of
Nepal Living Standard Survey (cross section) / LGCDP Sample Surveys
Verification
Frequency every 7 years / 2 years (2009, 2011, 2013)
Responsibility Central Bureau of Statistics / M&E Section of MLD
Indicator: Mean time taken by rural households to reach nearest dirt road (vehicle
passable) in hours and minutes
Rationale: The construction of vehicle passable dirt roads is a typical services provided by local
governments through LGCDP. This indicator focuses on the rural areas, where the gap is
wider (for urban areas, the average time is only 3 minutes). The data refers to the time for
one-way travel to the facility, irrespective of the mode of transport.
Limits: • see above
Baseline: 3 hours 7 minutes (2003/2004)
Target: 2 hours 30 minutes (2012)
Means of
Nepal Living Standard Survey (cross section) / LGCDP Sample Surveys
Verification
Frequency every 7 years / 2 years (2009, 2011, 2013)
Responsibility Central Bureau of Statistics / M&E Section of MLD
2 Cross section Living Standard data is published sooner than the data from the household panel. The cross section data from
the NLSS 2003/2004, for example, was published in December 2004, while the analysis of panel households was published only
in March 2006.
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